07/09/1940
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"I am convinced that nationwide minimum standards are necessary and that a way should be found promptly to crystallize in legal safeguards public opinion in behalf of the elimination of child labor."
"Our task is to prove that democracy could be made to function in the world of today as effectively as in the simpler world of a hundred years ago."
"With a better understanding of our purposes, and a more intelligent recognition of our needs as a Nation, it is not to be assumed that there will be prolonged failure to bring legislative and judicial..."
"The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law, but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it."